Comment on Passively regulating fermentation temperature
drre@feddit.de 7 months agoi use aquarium heaters but never cared about the energy consumption. my experience is that since fermentation is exothermic they rarely kick in. especially with larger fermenters it’s usually more important to prevent it from getting too hot. so maybe running larger batches might be something for you.
Aarkon@feddit.de 7 months ago
Energy consumption would be pretty much determined by the outside vs preferred temp-delta, so brewing heat loving Belgian beer in the dead of winter would make those heaters run all the time I suppose, even with serious insulation. Northern Germany‘s climate doesn’t make cooling an issue for anything else than food most of the year, but I’ll keep that in mind, thanks.
My batch size is limited by the size of my equipment, I can’t really go beyond 20, maybe 25 Liters.